hāwara
1. (loan) (noun) shovel.
Ka oti tana parāoa te poke, ka hoatu ki runga i te hāwara, kātahi ka utaina te hāwara ki ngā konga, kāore i roa ka maoa (PK 2008:303). / When she finished kneading the dough, she put it on a shovel, then placed the shovel on the hot coals and before long it was cooked.
hakohako
1. (verb) to shovel, scoop, heap up.
kārehu
1. (noun) shovel, spade - traditionally a wooden spade-like implement.
He raru nui tō tātou mehemea ka whakakorea ki a tātou ngā maripi, ngā kutikuti, ngā kārehu, ngā pātītī, ngā toki, ngā kōhua (TKP 28/6/1858:3). / We would have a major problem if knives, scissors, spades, hatchets, axes and pots were to be denied to us.
See also kāheru
koko
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to scoop up, shovel.
Ka koko parengo ia ki roto i tōna waha, me te kōtamutamu anō o ōna ngutu. "Hmm...āhua totetote tēnei kai." (TWK 36:4). / He scooped parengo seaweed into his mouth and smacked his lips. "Hmm...This food is quite salty."
Synonyms: kārehu, hakohako, hāwara, hako, hāpara, kāheru, kōutuutu, tīkoko, kaku, kapu, awhe
2. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to pull up.
Ka tahuri rātau ki te koko rimu hei takotoranga mō ngā pāua me ngā ika maroke kia mākūkū ai, koi kino i te rehu waitai (JPS 1913:111). / They proceeded to pull up seaweed as receptacles for the pāua and the dried fish so that they would be moist, and so that they should not be spoiled by the sea spray.
papaunguungu
1. (noun) Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis - a duck with a wide flat bill, living in shallow lowland wetlands and muddy wetlands.
See also kuruwhengi
2. (noun) Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis - a duck with a wide flat bill, living in shallow lowland wetlands and muddy wetlands.
See also kuruwhengi
pūtaitai
1. (noun) Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis - a duck with a wide flat bill, living in shallow lowland wetlands and muddy wetlands.
See also kuruwhengi
wetawetangū
1. (noun) Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis - a duck with a wide flat bill, living in shallow lowland wetlands and muddy wetlands.
See also kuruwhengi
2. (noun) Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis - a duck with a wide flat bill, living in shallow lowland wetlands and muddy wetlands.
See also kuruwhengi
panoko
1. (noun) torrentfish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri - a smallish, stocky fish with a strongly arched back and flattened ventral surface, large eyes on top of a head shaped like an inverted shovel, the mouth below , and the lower jaw distinctly shorter than the upper. An endemic fish found in larger, braided, gravel, open rivers of the North and South Islands. Solitary and secretive.
kohikohi
1. (noun) trumpeter, Latris lineata - a fish, yellow-brown on the back and sides with three bands of olive to yellow-green along the side. Belly silvery yellow, body elongated and compressed. Head with distinct concave profile.
Ko ētahi o āna mahi i te moutere he hopu haere, he kohi haere rānei i ētahi atu momo kai, arā, i te kekeno, i te kina, i te pāua, i te pākirikiri, i te mararī, i te kohikohi me te weka (TTR 1996:72). / Some of her tasks on the island was hunting and gathering various types of food, such as seals, sea-urchins, pāua, blue cod, butterfish, trumpeter and weka.
Synonyms: pōrae
2. (noun) opalfish, Hemerocoetes spp. - a slender-bodied fish with a flattened shovel-like head and a knob at the tip of the jaw.
mokomoko
1. (noun) lizard, skink, gecko - a general term. Because of their spiritual association with the atua Whiro, whose realm was of things evil, tuatara and geckos were feared.
Ko te rite o te Hauhau kei te ngārara nei kei te mokomoko pārae, kua patua e te tangata, motu ana te hiku, kua mate kē te tinana, kei te oioi tonu te hiku (TWM 9/9/1865:5). / The Hauhau are like this reptile, the gecko, that a person has killed, when the tail is cut off and the body has already died, the tail continues to quiver.
See also moko
2. (noun) torrentfish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri - a smallish, stocky fish with a strongly arched back and flattened ventral surface, large eyes on top of a head shaped like an inverted shovel, the mouth below , and the lower jaw distinctly shorter than the upper. An endemic fish found in larger, braided, gravel, open rivers of the North and South Islands. Solitary and secretive.
See also panoko
pānokonoko
1. (noun) type of string game.
Ka rere a Whānui ka tīmata te hauhake i ngā kai; te potonga o ngā kai ka mahia ngā mahi a Ruhanui, koia ēnei: ko te tūperepere, ko te tōreherehe, ko te kai whakatāpaepae, ko te kokomo, ko te tūmahana, ko te kaihaukai, ko te haka, ko te poi, ko te whakahoro taratahi, ko te tā pōtaka, ko te pōtēteke, ko te taupiripiri, ko te mū tōrere, a te whai, a te pānokonoko, o te tararī, a te kīkīporo, a te pākuru, a te tārere, a te kūī, a te kūrapakara, a te rere moari, me ērā atu mea katoa (TWMNT 11/9/1872:110). / When Vega rose the harvesting of the food began; and when that was done the activities of Ruhanui were carried out, which were these: the ceremony and feast to celebrate the storing of the kūmara crop, tobogganing, the displaying of food, the exchanging of gifts between hosts and visitors, feasting and presenting food, performing haka and poi, flying kites, whipping spinning tops, doing somersaults, racing arm in arm, playing draughts, performing string games, playing the pānokonoko string game, playing the jewsharp, beating the time to songs with pieces of wood held against the cheek, playing the mouth resonator, swinging, calling kūī, playing kūrapakara, swinging on the moari, and all those other games.
2. (noun) torrentfish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri - a smallish, stocky fish with a strongly arched back and flattened ventral surface, large eyes on top of a head shaped like an inverted shovel, the mouth below , and the lower jaw distinctly shorter than the upper. An endemic fish found in larger, braided, gravel, open rivers of the North and South Islands. Solitary and secretive.
See also panoko
pānonoko
1. (noun) torrentfish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri - a smallish, stocky fish with a strongly arched back and flattened ventral surface, large eyes on top of a head shaped like an inverted shovel, the mouth below , and the lower jaw distinctly shorter than the upper. An endemic fish found in larger, braided, gravel, open rivers of the North and South Islands. Solitary and secretive.
See also panoko
papanoko
1. (noun) torrentfish, Cheimarrichthys fosteri - a smallish, stocky fish with a strongly arched back and flattened ventral surface, large eyes on top of a head shaped like an inverted shovel, the mouth below , and the lower jaw distinctly shorter than the upper. An endemic fish found in larger, braided, gravel, open rivers of the North and South Islands. Solitary and secretive.
See also panoko
